When girls compliment other females...

Such stereotyping. Such stereotyping.

It's giving me a migraine. This is why I really feel like we as a society would benefit so much from being taught some basic psychological principles in school. Men feel just as much emotion as women, but they are simply encouraged to not be emotional, even punished for it. By saying that, not only are you suggesting that being emotional is negative, and that somehow women are lesser for it, but you are also perpetuating the societal pressures male face to be unemotional. Not good for mental health.


Referring to the other sex as "the emotional woman" is a typical strategy adopted by certain types of individuals in our country, often hierarchists, to maintain power structures. Come over to the dark side hun, emotion is good. It promotes decision making, it is adaptive.

And also, interesting fact, much research shows that males benefit more from the social sharing of emotional experiences, and are even more likely to do it.

I'm not saying women are biologically more emotional, I am saying that they are socially manufactured to be emotional compared to men. that's why they cry, scream etc more than men

He is the exception for the most part though even then I sometimes wonder if he only pays me a compliment because he feels he has to because he is my partner rather than fully means it if that makes sense?

i find that when i do get a outside compliment (someone i don't know at all or very well) i raise my guard but then again if you have plucked up enough courage to talk to me than i'll accept it (50% bad quality russian mobster/ 50% bad quality italian mobster)
an inside compliment (friends and family) i'll always accept at face value

what?

Sounds like a load of French to me

what?

I digress, but I wonder how acceptable other girls would find it if a total stranger who was another girl complimented them in public? The other day I saw a beautiful girl sitting eating alone & I just wanted to go up to her after I'd finished eating and tell her ''you're very beautiful'' or something similar. But I didn't want to embarass the poor girl.

Sometimes I compliment a girl when I can tell that she has made an effort, even if I don't think they look nice. Does that make me a bitch?

This is exactly the scenario I'm talking about just at a store. Why do you feel the urge to do that?

Yeah I do get it, I suppose it depends on how they say it. And if they are giving weird looks like that. I don't really get compliments from girls my age, it's usually ladies older than me. They seem sincere to me. The only time I've had a weird compliment is in secondary school where it was a direct scene from mean girls. Like she said 'you're pretty' and I replied 'thank you' and her response was 'so you think it too?' Goes without saying I was a bit freaked out.. 😂

I'm so paranoid sometimes that I don't trust any compliment in case they're being sarcastic or making fun of me

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